Papers, 1858-1925.

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Papers, 1858-1925.

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Correspondence, diaries, research files, scrapbooks, mss. of writings, lecture notes, publications, sketches, drawings, and other papers, relating to Morse's career and the diversity of his scientific and aesthetic interests. Includes information concerning his activities as student assistant to Louis Agassiz, Harvard College (1859-1862), as professor of zoology at Imperial University (Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku), Tokyo, Japan (1877-1879), director of Peabody Academy of Science (later Peabody Museum of Salem), Salem, Mass. (1880-1916), and keeper of Japanese pottery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1915-1925). Subjects include Morse's introduction of evolutionary theory to the Japanese, his comparison of modern brachiopoda with its fossil species, establishment of a marine laboratory in Japan, Japanese pottery and culture, his book entitled Japan Day by Day (concerning the vanishing feudal Tokugawa civilization), astronomy, marine biology, oriental art, the study of arrow release, noise control, and others.

40 linear ft.

Peabody Museum of Salem

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Peabody Museum of Salem

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Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925

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Zoologist, ethnologist, and art historian, of Salem, Mass. From the description of Edward Sylvester Morse correspondence, ca. 1860-1900. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71128459 From the description of Papers, 1858-1925. (Peabody Museum). WorldCat record id: 28416528 American zoologist and orientalist, born in Portland, Me. Prentice C. Manning, of Portland, worked for Bryon Greenough & Co. (hats, caps, and furs). From the desc...